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Governor Proposes Closing CHRO’s Waterbury Office

By Daniel Schwartz on Posted in CHRO & EEOC, Legislative Developments

UPDATED: The cuts to the CHRO keep coming. Governor Malloy this morning released his plan to reduce the size of government — should a deal with the state labor unions not be struck. The plan calls for the elimination of the CHRO’s Waterbury Office (page 35) and the elimination of other staff positions.  All told,… Continue Reading

Court Allows First Amendment Retaliation Claim to Proceed To Trial

By Daniel Schwartz on Posted in Litigation

Last year, I talked about a First Amendment retaliation case and noted the difficulties in defending against such claims.  A new case out of the federal court in Connecticut last week highlights the those difficulties even further. In Brown v. Waterbury Board of Ed. (download here), the Plaintiff, a custodian for the Waterbury Board of… Continue Reading

A Tale of Two Worlds – A Job Fair and a Supervisors’ Conference

By Daniel Schwartz on Posted in Human Resources (HR) Compliance

If you were at the Holiday Inn in Waterbury yesterday, you had the opportunity to see a microcosm of what’s going on in today’s workplaces and economy. Lining the halls outside the conference rooms to the hotel were hundreds (850, to be exact) of people apply for 40-50 jobs at an indoor water park.  (The… Continue Reading